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What I'm more interested in is what will happen to farage if we leave. The Tories are terrified of Ukip. Will they invite Farage into government or continue to slander him. I suspect he'll rebrand Ukip to form a new party campaigning for smaller government as the Tories aren't really Tories any more. I'd probably still vote for him.

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What I'm more interested in is what will happen to farage if we leave. The Tories are terrified of Ukip. Will they invite Farage into government or continue to slander him. I suspect he'll rebrand Ukip to form a new party campaigning for smaller government as the Tories aren't really Tories any more. I'd probably still vote for him.

I half think he may retire from politics in the event of Brexit. His work of all these years will be done; the war would be won.

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Cameron and Corbyn can't last as leaders in a post Leave Britian, Corbyn for not sticking to his principles and backing Leave which he naturally should have done and Cameron for failing to secure the vote for Remain as PM. There will be massive fall out from this either way, and in the event of a Leave vote massive fall out and repercussions throughout the EU.

Interesting times!

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we have fixed terms now so presumably nothing exciting would need to happen

The Fixed-term Paliaments Act says that if a Government loses a no confidence vote and a new Government isn't able to win a confidence vote within 14 days then a general election must be held. The Tories only have a majority of 8 so if the infighting got really bad in the Conservative party post-referendum then you'd only need a handful to vote against the Government in a no-confidence vote to trigger an election.

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Because the only chance it has of surviving long term is a fully fiscal and political union ,can you see the German taxpayer subsidising the Greeks/Spanish /Portuguese , can you see the Greeks being ruled by some one in Brussels ,can you see the UK taxpayer excepting that our government`s budget and funding is going to be decided by someone in Brussels

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The Fixed-term Paliaments Act says that if a Government loses a no confidence vote and a new Government isn't able to win a confidence vote within 14 days then a general election must be held. The Tories only have a majority of 8 so if the infighting got really bad in the Conservative party post-referendum then you'd only need a handful to vote against the Government in a no-confidence vote to trigger an election.

I forgot how slim the majority is. There would be little prospect of the Tories agreeing on a new leader and avoiding an election.

Maybe Cameron wouldn't be bothered, he does not intend to continue for long anyway.

Will this split the Tory party? Who has the clout to hold them together? I don't see Osborn or Johnson doing it.

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I forgot how slim the majority is. There would be little prospect of the Tories agreeing on a new leader and avoiding an election.

Maybe Cameron wouldn't be bothered, he does not intend to continue for long anyway.

Will this split the Tory party? Who has the clout to hold them together? I don't see Osborn or Johnson doing it.

With the added complication that the Conservative party chooses its leaders by a vote of the grassroots party members, not just the parliamentary party. Not sure what the mechanism is of triggering a leadership election if the current leader doesn't want to stand down.